Archive for July, 2009

LightCycle Wrap

Friday, July 31st, 2009

LightCycle is 2009 is over and all that remains is for me to wrap things up.

LightCycle 2009 has been a great success.  Many thanks to everyone who has got involved and made it what it was.  So many people to thanks – my team at Electrolight (especially our new permanent team member Amelia), the State of Design Festival team, Guildford Lane Gallery, the sponsors, judges and of course everybody who entered.

Some highlights for me were the opening night – soooo many people!!!  The diversity of entries – loved the piss jelly of Christ from James Staughton although we’re still wondering what that has to do with sustainability.  The craftsmanship of so many entries and, of course, our winners.

And talking of winners – the votes have been counted (literally hundreds of them) and we have a people’s choice winner: Specular from Giles Matthews.  Giles is now looking for a bigger place to live as he has won the “No Copy” pendant from uber-trendy Belgian lighting company Dark.  The pendant is massive!  Thanks to Inlite for donating this prize.

Look out for LightCycle when it comes around again in 2011.  Meanwhile, if you have any comments or feedback relating to LightCycle please post it on this blog.

Cheers, Paul

People's choice winner - Specular by Giles Matthews

People's choice winner - Specular by Giles Matthews

We have a winner!!!

Monday, July 20th, 2009

After months of anticipation, lots of hard work, no small amount of creativity and a spectacular finale, we have a winner.  Well done to John Lim whose bread bag tag light has scooped top prize in the 2009 LightCycle competition.

Thank you to everybody who took part in this year’s competition, to all the sponsors, the judges, my team at Electrolight and to State of Design for making this competition such a fantastic success.  Also thanks to the hundreds of people who turned up for thje opening on Friday night - great to see you all there.  This competition has further demonstrated the extent of creativity in this state and the exhibition is well worth a look if you haven’t been there yet.

Bread bag tag light by John Lim

Bread bag tag light by John Lim

Peter Bennetts

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

Yesterday we had the privilege of working with Peter Bennetts who was shooting our projects at Crown Casino, the University of Melbourne Faculty of Economics and Commerce and 31 Queen Street (below).  We have been a big fan of Peter for a while and it was great to see the man in action.  Look out for his photos coming to this web site very soon…

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Peter in action

LightCycle Judging Complete

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

After many hours of deliberation the judges have reached a decision on which of the entries have made our top five.  This was a particularly tough job, not just because the quality of the entries was so high but the sheer diversity of responses to the brief was amazing.  Again, thanks to all who have entered and a special thanks to our Judges Chris Barnett, Soren Luckins and Simon Knott who have given up their time to do such a thorough review of the entries.

Getting to grips with the entries...

Getting to grips with the entries...

LightCycle Update

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

Most of Electrolight’s team have spent the day working hard setting up the gallery for the opening of LightCycle this Friday night.

I have to say that the quality of this year’s entries has been really high - well done to everybody who has made such a huge effort to take part.  For those of you who are coming along on Friday night you are in for a treat!

We have wonderful creations installed on walls, tables, floor, columns and suspended from the rafters over 2 levels of Guildford Lane Gallery, 20-24 Guildford Lane, Melbourne,  The fun starts at 6.30.

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Architecture Awards

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

We are proud to be associated with the Melbourne Recital Centre and MTC Theatre project which took out top honours at this year’s AIA Victorian Architecture Awards for architects Ashton Raggatt McDougall.

This was one of our first projects - job number 16. Putting this into context, we now have over 160 projects to our name.  This building was particularly challenging from a lighting design perspective; lots of complex spaces and elements to light.  We are pretty happy with the results and so must the clients’ marketing department seeing as most promotional images we have been are night shots.

The project received the following gongs: the  2009 Victorian Architecture Medal; the William Wardell Award for public architecture; the Marion Mahony Award for interior architecture and the Joseph Reed Award for urban design.

Chair of juries, Philip Goad, says the combined buildings make a significant contribution to Melbourne’s arts precinct and may well expand current audiences, sentiments echoed in the Victorian Medal jury citation.
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Watergardens Shopping Centre catenary lighting

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

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Electrolight has designed a catenary lighting installation at the entrance to Watergardens Shopping Centre  on the outskirts of Melbourne.  Construction of the catenary system is underway, and the lighting will be installed in the coming months.

Here is a photo taken yesterday of the completed catenary system…